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Watch Steve Jones, Chair, Oysters Australia Research and Development Committee and Oyster Grower from the Hawkesbury River in NSW closing 2014 message, watch Steve’s message below or read the transcript. Allocation of grower’s R&D...

The Australian Oyster Industry has an exciting opportunity, with the announcement for the Expression of Interest for the commercialisation of the Easy-Open Oyster technology. Please read the full announcement by Dr Len Stephens, Managing...

Source: ABC Rural Life on an oyster farm in Stansbury South Australia is picture perfect, as long as it’s not raining. Yorke Peninsula isn’t the state’s most famous oyster region, but producers here grow...

Source: ABC Rural Oyster farmers on the far south coast of New South Wales are taking to Pacific Oyster populations with small hammers, trying to ‘kill off’ the pest before they spawn. The commercial...

Source: nydailynews.com The virus can’t be transmitted to humans but has a nearly 100% mortality rate among Pacific oysters. Ostreid herpesvirus-1 microvariant, which is also called Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS), has been known...

Source: News.Discovery.com As CO2 levels increase in the atmosphere, near-shore waters are becoming more acidic, which can hurt the shell strength of marine organisms. The early stages of shell growth are sensitive to increasingly...

Source: Centralmaine Oyster herpes doesn’t harm people but a mutation has turned it from being an occasional oyster nuisance to an oyster killer in unprecedented proportions. MELBOURNE, Australia — Herpes has devastated 26 percent...

Source: Sapphire Coast Oyster farmers will be on hand to offer festival-goers freshly shucked oysters from a number of estuaries along the coast, as well as running the annual oyster shucking competition.Local oyster farmers...

Source: Narooma News HE wash up from this month’s flooding event at Narooma continues for both Narooma oyster growers and residents of the Flat. Oyster growers were facing a three-week closure after the more...

Source: AL.com In 2012, Apalachicola Bay oyster fishers harvested more than 3 million pounds of oyster meat, roughly 92 percent of the Florida oyster harvest and 10 percent of the harvest nationwide. In 2013,...

Source: 774 ABC Melbourne Jon Faine’s co-host is presenter of Radio National’s First Bite program, Michael Mackenzie. Their first guest is founding Director of Sense T, Ros Harvey. “We’re working with the food industry,...

Source: Coffee and Champagne It’s Oyster Week! In true New York fashion, it is a two week long affair—September 11 through the 28th, 2014! How grand! Let’s celebrate the oyster! Much like restaurant week,...

Source ABC Rural n Producers of Pacific Oysters will pay a levy to research fighting a virus which is leaving whole farms decimated. The Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome or POMS virus has been particularly...

Sampling of Australian shellfish for human norovirus (NoV) and hepatitis A virus (HAV) has started under a FRDC funded project. International regulatory pressure has meant that many shellfish producing countries now test for norovirus...

Source: ABC Rural Marine scientists studying Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome using a vaccine to trigger immunity in diseased oysters Oysters from the Clyde River on the New South Wales far south coast are being...